Friday fun in Shrewsbury - Learn English on the 🔴LIVE stream with Mr Duncan

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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I can't believe that they don't have 5G mobile  signal here, I'm rather disappointed to say the  
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least, but it's okay it's not too bad I suppose  I Will Survive because we do have a very good  
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4G signal right here now it is just after 2:00 in  the afternoon it is Friday and I am out and about  
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I couldn't resist doing a live stream the weather  isn't very good today we had rain this morning it  
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is still cloudy above but hopefully there won't  be any rain or else I will be in a lot of trouble  
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I suppose you are wondering where I am at the  moment I am in a place that is about about 15  
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miles from where I live in Much Wenlock the place  is called Shrewsbury and it is the main town in  
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this particular area a lot of old buildings you  might already see a couple of old buildings lots  
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of people walking around it is of course Friday  afternoon a lot of people out shopping also many  
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people getting ready for the weekend we have a  very busy weekend ahead of us to be honest very  
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busy weekend I will be going to Bristol with Mr  Steve on Saturday we will be going to see Beatriz  
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and I think I'm not sure we might be doing a live  stream as well we will see what happens anyway I  
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think the big question must be where am I we can't  see you Mr Duncan can you please show yourself  
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okay just for you seeing that you asked me so  nicely I will reveal myself right now oh there  
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you are hi everybody this is Mr Duncan in England  how are you today are you okay I hope so are you  
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happy I hope you are happy today I'm not too bad  so as I mentioned I am now live in the centre of  
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an Old Town a town with a lot of history in fact  Shropshire has a lot of history not very far away  
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from where I'm standing now there there lies the  ruins of a Roman town called Wroxeter so Wroxeter  
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is the old Roman town in fact that is why we call  the big hill near my house we call it the Rin for  
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that very reason so the area in which I'm in used  to be known as Wroxeter but now of course it is  
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known as Shropshire and in the past it also be it  was known as Salop Salop so a lot of people who've  
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lived in this area for many years will often refer  to this area as Salop they refer to the eles as
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Salopians it almost sounds as if they come from  another planet and to be honest with you quite a  
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few of them appear as if they have come from  another planet I suppose I should be careful  
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I should be very careful what I'm saying or else  I might get dragged into one of the pie shops so  
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I am here thank you very much for joining me I'm  going to see who is on the live chat oh hello hell  
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we have first oh very nice we have Louis Mendes  is here today hello Louis nice to see you here  
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today thank you very much for joining us I hope  you are now safely back in Paris and can I send  
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my best wishes also to your good wife as well  that is what we normally say when we whenever  
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we send best wishes to to someone's wife we often  describe her as The Good Wife there is a lot of  
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assumption taking place that maybe the wife is  a good wife and I have a feeling for what you've  
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told me in the past Louis your wife is very  good I know one thing I know your wife makes  
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the most amazing pizzas that is something I've  noticed from your photographs also here vas oh  
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vas I'm a so sorry you were second on the live  chat today I'm ever so sorry about that also we
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have Mosen hello Mosen nice to see you here as  
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well a lot of people joining  us on the live chat also we
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have beatriz hello beatriz I'm just testing  my equipment at the moment because tomorrow  
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as I mentioned at the start of the  live stream we are going to be in  
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Bristol tomorrow broadcasting live and I  believe now Mr Steve has told me that we  
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have some plans tomorrow in Bristol  apparently we are going to a stately
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home I wonder where that could be I'm I'm very  intrigued to find out where that is hello also  
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Giovani hello to you how is Italy have you kept  Italy safe for me is it nice and secure I hope  
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so and please can you call my name B name B name  ysf hello to you thank you for joining us as well  
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today I wasn't sure if I was going to do a live  stream but I decided to do one anyway because  
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I'm here I'm in a beautiful place a very ancient  town and there are many old buildings you might  
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notice behind me there are some buildings very  distinct with the black and white appearance and  
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these particular buildings are probably from Tuda  times a very long time ago indeed Claudia hello  
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Claudia nice to see you here as well I was talking  about you this morning to one of my friends I was  
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talking about dentists because of course next  week I am going to the dentist unfortunately I  
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don't want to go to the dentist but it is time  for me to have my yearly check up so I'm not  
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looking forward to that but I have nothing  against dentists I'm sure all dentists are  
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lovely lovely people and I know Claudia is so I  would imagine you all are if you are a dentist  
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watching today who else is here on the live chat  elaf hello elaf yes I am now live in the centre  
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of Shrewsbury you can always look it up on the map  you can have a look where it is vas says Mr Duncan  
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Shrewsbury is 15 miles from your house yes I  think it is about 15 miles I came here on the  
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bus by the way for those wondering how I got here  I actually took the bus it takes about 25 minutes  
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to get here from Much Wenlock on the bus and can  I just say it was the bumpiest most uncomfortable  
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bus I've ever been on in my life I don't know  why I think it might have something to do with  
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the fact that there are many potholes big holes in  the roads and there are quite a few of them around  
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nowadays many people have been complaining about  potholes because there do seem to be quite a few  
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around ground at the moment so I don't know about  your country but here we our roads the roads here  
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in the UK are in very poor condition now as you  may or may not know we do have a general election  
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taking place next Thursday everyone will go out to  vote will there be a new government instead of the  
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conseratives will it be labour running the country  I wonder we will have to find out who else is here  
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maruts is here hello maruts nice to see you here  as well thank you for joining me I'm only here for  
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a short time I thought I would say hello because  I've been here I've been in the town for about the  
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last couple of hours I have been doing some boring  things connected to my life so I had to come here  
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anyway to do something and also I went to see a  lovely lady called Karen who was the lady who sold  
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the wedding rings to us last year so I went into  the shop to say hello to Karen and we had a very  
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nice conversation it went on for a little bit too  long long if I was honest so I had to rush here  
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and set my equipment up and now I am with you live  and that was my morning basically but the bus ride  
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over here was really uncomfortable it was throwing  me all over the place if I was honest with you  
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it was more comfortable flying at 30,000 ft in  an airplane than it was bumping along the road  
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here in Shropshire but anyway I got here okay  and now I'm here surrounded by people the general  
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public these are the people if you look behind  me you can see lots of people these are the  
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people who will decide the fate of this country  next Thursday so one of the big issues besides  
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other things that I'm not going to talk
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about potholes a big subject lots of holes in  the roads now a few days ago I was in Italy and I  
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noticed that the roads in Italy are in much better  condition than the ones here in the UK and some  
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of those roads are 2,000 years old and they are  in better condition than the ones here although  
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having said that we do have quite a few Roman  roads here in the UK one of the longest roads  
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in the UK is actually an old Roman Road the A5  so if you look at the map of the UK and you look  
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for the A5 you will you will see that the road  goes for a very long way right from the north of  
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England way down towards the south of England  so the A5 originally was built by the Romans
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Romans so that is a little bit of history there I  hope you enjoying the history look there's a bus  
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can you see the bus now that was not the bus I was  traveling on this morning because that bus looks  
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nice and comfortable the bus I was on this morning  was really unpleasant and hard and bumpy and my  
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poor back my poor back now is really hurting quite  a lot because of the bumpy bus and of course the  
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bumpy roads as well let us not forget there are  many potholes around this area and across the UK  
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one of the big complaints that people have when  are they going to fix the potholes I know near  
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me in much Wenlock there are many many potholes in  the roads and Mr Steve is always complaining about  
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them because he always thinks that if he goes  over a pothole he might damage his car who else  
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is here can I say hello to TI Hello tenen nice to  see you here where are you watching at the moment  
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are you in a far Rough Country somewhere hot maybe  somewhere tropical perhaps all I can say is today  
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it does not feel tropical here in Shrewsbury  it is around 17 Celsius which to be honest with  
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you it's almost like being in a refrigerator after  spending 11 days in Italy I have to be honest with  
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you who else is here Giovani says Mr Duncan can  I ask why the UK will vote on the 4th of July it  
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is a strange date yes it is a very strange date a  lot of people have asked why did they choose July  
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the 4th because of course historically July the  4th has a lot of connection to the USA because  
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of course it is their independence day day the  celebration of Independence Day so it does seem  
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like a very strange reason but some believe that  it is a type of tactic so there's an interesting  
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word tactic tactic means a plan of action maybe  something you have already planned out something  
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you have planned to do a way of achieving  something so maybe you have a plan to do a  
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certain thing in a particular way we can describe  that as a tactic a means of doing something  
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getting from one place to another or maybe how  you would achieve something your tactic so some  
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people believe that July the 4th has been used or  chosen as the date for the general election just  
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because it is in the summertime so more people  will come out to vote I would imagine that's one  
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of the reasons also I suppose we have a great  phrase in English where we say that you should  
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tear the plaster of the wound very quickly you  should do something without hesitation so I think  
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one of the things or one of the reasons why it  is happening on July the 4th is because everyone  
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wants to get it out of the way we just want to get  it done as quickly as possible so I think that is  
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one of the main reasons but I do agree with you it  is a very strange time of year to have a general  
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election although having said that we've had  it at other times of the year that have been  
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equally as strange as well we did have a general  election near Christmas about 3 years ago so yes  
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we we have had some very strange elections  at some very unusual times of year hello to  
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Nitram Nitram is talking about American politics  I watched the US presidential debate to practice  
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my listening skills it wasn't a good idea I would  imagine it wouldn't be a good idea do you know why  
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do you know why it wasn't a good idea because I  don't think much was said I think that might be  
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the reason why so that could be the reason why my  throat is getting dry and I'm starting to become  
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hoarse I'm losing my voice already see there's a  nice bus look at that bus did you see the big blue  
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bus that is a lovely bus when when I go back home  on the bus I'm going to try and choose a bus that  
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isn't bumpy because my back is now hurting so yes  last night the presidential debate took place in  
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the United States between one guy who is elderly  and another guy who is equally elderly I haven't  
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seen it yet I'm going to go home and I'm going  to watch it so tonight I'm going to watch the  
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whole thing because I did record it but I couldn't  watch it live because it started at 2:00 in the  
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morning and I was in bed you see there goes an  ambulance fortunately it's not for me so don't  
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panic I'm okay the only thing I am suffering today  is a little bit of hay fever a lot of people have  
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been complaining this year because they are  saying that more and more people seem to be  
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suffer suffering from hay fever and I have to be  honest my my allergies have been really bad this  
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year much worse than normal and I don't know why  anyway I did take one of my special little tablets  
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just before starting my live stream so I think I  should be okay we've now been on for 20 minutes  
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20 whole minutes we've been here and I hope You'  enjoyed what watching yes this is Shrewsbury it's  
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not a place you hear of very often and yet there  are many wonderful things to see here there is a  
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Roman town not very far away from here there is  also an ancient Roman wall although to be honest  
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with you there isn't much of it left most of it  has fallen down but it is there if you want to go  
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along and see it rosa is the name of the place  the original town uh before well before all of  
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this was built and you might just notice above my  head you can see there there I think that might  
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be the main church here in Shrewsbury because  there are I think there are three churches here  
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in rosbury hello tja tja Tas hello to you thank  you for joining me it's nice to see that it isn't  
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raining you are right it is not raining today I am  very pleased even though this morning we have we  
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had loads of rain it wouldn't stop raining so when  I woke up this morning I was a bit worried because  
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all it was doing was raining so I was slightly  concerned that perhaps maybe I wouldn't be able to  
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come to Shrewsbury but the weather has stayed nice  here comes another bus you see these blue buses  
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they are very they're actually quite new so most  of these buses are actually new look at that one  
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isn't that lovely so lots of the buses that you  see around here are only maybe a year or two years  
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old but this morning I don't know what happened  the bus that I caught was about 30 years old  
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and it was bumping along the road I know I'm  going to keep complaining about this I have to  
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be honest with you it was so bumpy I think I've  damaged my coccyx which is the base of the spinal  
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column for those who are wondering thank you very  much for being with me it is nice to be here I do  
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like doing this I have to be honest if there's  one thing I love doing it's doing live streams  
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because it's it's it's sort of an adventure  when you think about it it's a kind of Adventure  
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because you never know what is going to happen  next someone could run up to me right now and  
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steal my hat they're not going to but they could  they could it could happen here's another bus  
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where where is this bus going oh it says sorry  not in service so when you see that sign on the  
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side of a bus it's never good because that means  that bus is going nowhere it's just going to drive  
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around and around so that particular bus isn't  going anywhere because it says sorry no service  
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some people are now talking about politics in the  USA and of course here in the UK we we are also  
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talking about politics as I mentioned we have the  presidential election taking place later this year  
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and also here we have the prime ministerial  election taking place so a lot of people are  
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talking about that although to be honest if I  was honest with you I don't think many people  
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are all that interested in politics they're not  if they were honest they would probably say I'm  
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not really interested in politics to be honest  as long as I can feed my family and as long as  
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I can go to work and as long as I can watch the  television at night and drink my beer I'll be
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happy I really hope that bus will be the  one that takes me home I really do because  
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it looks nice and comfortable hello to AB  delac hello abdell it is nice to see you  
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here on the live stream I am here live from  Shrewsbury already a few people have asked  
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Mr Duncan where are you it says it in the  title of the video it says under there it  
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says Shrewsbury live from Shrewsbury is where  I am it is a town it is an ancient town there  
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are lots of old buildings I might actually  let you see a little bit of the area where  
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I am so there you can see there is a Starbucks  coffee shop Starbucks coffee because if there's  
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one thing we need here in Shrewsbury it is lots  of places to get coffee and right next door yes  
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there is another coffee shop so there are two  coffee shops right next to each other they are  
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literally Rivals so I wonder if they ever have  arguments over whose coffee is the best I wonder  
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maybe on a Saturday morning they go out into  the streets and have a little fight and right  
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behind me you can see over there that is looking  towards the museum and also also believe it or not  
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inside that building there there is a cinema  I'm not joking so if you go to that building  
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there there is actually a cinema you can go up  in a little elevator to the top and they will  
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show lots of movies I don't know what's showing at  the moment it's probably Charlie Chaplin knowing  
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Shrewsbury so this is Shrewsbury for those who  are wondering what Shrewsbury looks like this is  
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it oh did you see that those two people were  hugging if there's one thing we need more of  
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in this world it's people hugging each other in  the streets spontaneously I'm just waiting now  
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for someone to come up to me and give me a hug I  have a feeling tomorrow I'm going to get lots of  
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hugs because I'm going to see beatriz we are going  to be together in Bristol and you've guessed right  
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because we are going to do a live stream tomorrow  from Bristol there will be me there will be  
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Mr Steve and beatriz will be there as well it's  nice to have a hug I agree with you Mosen you are  
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right it is nice to have a hug oh here is another  another bus going by did you see that another bus
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I don't know why today today I seem obsessed with  buses there is a reason for that it isn't very  
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often that I use public transport I will be honest  with you some of the public transport here in the  
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UK is not very good some of the buses are old many  of the trains do not run on time they are often  
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late delayed or even cancelled as  well so there are many reasons why  
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you might find it hard to travel  on public transport here in the
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UK to be honest I am used to American English  rather than British that's okay Nitram guess  
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what I've got some news for you Nitram it  doesn't really matter to be honest because  
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American English and British English are  basically the same root it all comes from  
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the same bucket to be honest with you when I  watch American TV shows I don't need to have  
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subtitles or captions there is no need to do  that you see because I can understand it so to  
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be honest with you if you prefer American  English maybe you are talking about the
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accent the bus you can see now that  looks like the bus I caught this  
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morning it's very similar in appearance  and you can see the bus is a little bit  
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older it's not as nice as the blue ones  Alexander hello Alexander sup bro sup bro
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yourself samanda who is watching in usbekistan  hello to you it's very nice to say hello to you  
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there because I'm now in Shrewsbury and  I don't think many people in usbekistan  
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know anything about Shrewsbury so now is your  opportunity to have a look around and see all  
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the wonderful sites all the wonderful coffee  shops if you do come to Shrewsbury I can get  
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guarantee you will never ever be short of  coffee there are coffee shops everywhere  
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there is a Starbucks behind me there are  at least another eight coffee shops just  
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in this area where I'm standing now so one of  the things you might notice when you visit a  
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British town or especially an English town  town you will notice that there are lots  
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and lots of places to to eat lots of places  to eat and lots of places to enjoy a cup of
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coffee no no that is not the bus that is not the  bus that took me this morning because it looks  
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too clean the bus that I was on this morning was  horrible it was old and it was falling to pieces
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unfortunately who else is here hello only videos  I don't know English can I speak Hindi here well  
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you can if you want I don't think anyone will  understand what you're saying but you can if  
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you want to use Hindi you can speak Hindi you can  type Hindi but I don't think many people will be  
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replying if I was honest with you hello haneen  Al hello to you as well thank you for joining
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me who else is here Adelina hello Adelina  Adelina welcome to my live stream I am out  
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and about this is live right now the time  is just after halfast 2 and I know that
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because the building behind me  
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actually has a clock you might notice the clock  up there and it does say that it's just after  
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half past 2 and I do trust that clock because  it's been around for many years telling the  
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time precisely and always on time Alexandra  hello Alexandra it is so nice to see you here  
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because you are now bringing back a wonderful  moment of time to my mind a wonderful memory  
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is now going through my brain all my synapses  are firing as I remember the wonderful time we  
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had the one night that we met for a very short  period of time so it's nice to see you here as
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well I think we should have a
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club okay Giovani well I think we should  have a club in fact I always think that  
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this is a little bit like a family so I never  think of this as a classroom I always think of  
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this as a type of family group Club maybe so  I think so yes it would be a good idea yeah  
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maybe I should have a private club that  people can join and maybe you can pay a  
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subscription to the club and then you will  be an exclusive member what do you think of  
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that is that a good idea or is it a terrible idea  it's probably a terrible idea because it's one of
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mine beatriz where are we going tomorrow I'm  interested to find out now originally we were  
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going to visit a garden centre but now apparently  we're not doing that we're doing something
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else we are doing something else  tomorrow I think we are visiting a  
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stately home but at some point oh the  sun is trying to come out isn't that
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nice Come On Son you can do better  than that so tomorrow we are visiting  
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a stately home and yes there will be  a live stream tomorrow there will be  
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me Mr Steve and also beer trees  as well so that should be very
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interesting Shrewsbury is around 15 miles from  Much Wenlock Pedro hello Pedro Belmont is here  
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today there are some bookshops here in Much  Wenlock there is a place called I think it's  
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called red or dead and that particular place does  sell books so there are places here to buy books  
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uh you can also visit a book shop I think  there are at least two book shops here in  
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Shrewsbury that you can buy new books but also  there is at least one shop here where you can  
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buy a strange little vehicle did you see that  vehicle in what a strange little vehicle that  
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was that was a tiny little bus did you see that I  think it was electric so there are places to buy  
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buy books if you want you can buy some old  books second hand books Pala says we have
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30° 30° how is that possible today it's around  18 Celsius here in the UK so we're not having  
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very good weather you might say that it is  a a little cool at the moment but at least  
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it's not raining that is the good thing we don't  have much sunshine today but at least it's not
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raining something to mention here in the centre  of Shrewsbury there is a lot of building work  
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that is about to take place and there you can  see I don't know if you saw that but there was  
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a van there with a little a little digger on  the back and they are planning at the moment  
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to close a lot of Shrewsbury town centre  they're going to close it because there  
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is a lot of work that is going to take place  repairing the roads but also I think they are  
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doing something with the water as well the  water supply so I think they are going to
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repair some of the water pipes now that's a nice  bus that one is a nice bus it's a small bus that  
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looks very comfortable so I'm hoping when I go  home I will be going home on on that bus I hope
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so can I let you in on a secret  I really do want a cup of
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coffee it's too tempting because behind me look  behind me there are two coffee shop shops and  
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I am standing here without any coffee it's  almost like torture I almost feel as if I'm  
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being punished somehow by a greater power oh  now that's a nice bus look at that bus green  
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green why is that buzz green oh I see it looks as  if that bus might be using renewable energy maybe  
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it has batteries or perhaps it is using one  of these new bio fuels perhaps maybe I don't  
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really know you see because I'm too far away from  the bus to actually know whether or not it is so  
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this is I suppose you would describe this area  as a square so this is sort of a square I don't  
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think it is the Town Square but it is one of the  Bane squares here in Shrewsbury so I suppose you  
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would describe this as a square a Shopping Square  a place where people can just walk around and buy  
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things maybe they can go and see a movie at the  cinema there or perhaps they can buy and enjoy a  
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cup of coffee wouldn't that be lovely I wonder  if there are any famous people who live here  
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in Shrewsbury I wonder if there are any famous  people living here now or perhaps people who used  
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to live here now I'm not sure if there are any  famous people living here now but I do know that  
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Charles Darwin the man who is responsible for the  Origin of Species he really really did upset a lot  
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of people by the way Charles Darwin he really did  annoy a lot of people with his theory of evolution  
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he did he annoyed a lot of people he wasn't  the first person to talk about it though did  
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you know that because a lot of people think that  Charles Darwin was the first person to talk about  
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Evolution but before him there were other people  who also discussed the possibility of evolution  
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amongst well everything that's  alive to be honest including
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us the theory of evolution says that we came from  apes to be honest with you if you ever come to  
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England you might be thinking that perhaps we are  turning back into primitive forms of humanity I  
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suppose it depends where you go Shanghai is here  hello Shanghai it is raining it has been raining  
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for more than one week here in Shanghai that  doesn't sound very good a few days ago we did  
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have the same problem here whilst I was in Italy  enjoying myself in the sun here in England people  
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were complaining because the weather was so bad  but if I was honest with you can I be honest with  
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you we always complain about the weather we always  do so whatever the weather is doing whether it is  
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hot or cold it is always bad so people will always  complain about the weather it is something we are  
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very well known for when when you ever think  of English people English men or English ladies
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they will often complain about the weather in some
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situation
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32° 32 de is that in France so at  the moment in France it is 32° that  
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is incredible I can't believe it that  is amazing nram says speaking of Cinema  
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kaviari film festival in CIA is about  to start this year we are having Vigo  
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Mortensen and also Jeffrey Rush a very  famous British actor Jeffrey Rush was
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in oh Pirates of the Caribbean yeah and he was  in another film called Whiplash as well about  
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a guy who played the drums a very famous  actor he often plays unusual characters  
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Jeffrey Rush Giovani says I've prepared  for two books to read for this summer
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an Anglo thopia of Adventures and the second  one is uncertain maybe The Never Ending Story  
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or maybe a little bit of Sherlock Holmes I  have to say I do like Sherlock Holmes the
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stories Mr Duncan it is 32° currently ly in  corus in Lithuania that is very hot it was  
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hotter during our time in Rome we went along  to the Coliseum and it was 36 degrees beatriz  
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says I have to leave the class because we are  invited to an afternoon tea with some friends  
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oh very nice don't forget when you drink your tea  you have to put your little finger out like that  
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so remember if you come to England and you have a  cup of tea you must Al always drink the tea like
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this and don't forget you don't  slurp you sip your tea you don't
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slurp there's nothing worse than hearing someone  slurp their tea it is quite disgusting to be h  
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honest Mr Duncan have you ever read any Ian  Fleming books Ian Fleming of course famous  
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for well he was of course a spy in real life Ian  Fleming he was called upon to work undercover as  
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a spy he wrote James Bond of course a lot  of the James Bond films were adapted from  
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in Fleming's stories he also wrote surprisingly a  children's book as well called Chitty Chitty Bang
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Bang Mr Duncan thinks I'm from chcha  as opposed to CIA the Czech Republic  
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I don't think that what makes you  think that I don't think that at all  
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I am standing in a very busy area surrounded  by people I'm standing here talking to myself  
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I think maybe you are being a little bit  too critical there but there you go it  
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is the price I pay for doing this my public  they love me and loathe me in equal amounts
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apparently what is your opinion about the  loopin story loopin I'm not quite sure  
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what you are referring to more details and I  might do that do Britain drink tea with milk  
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yes quite often I suppose it depends what type  of tea it is but normally black tea so you you  
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you can think of all of the different  types of black tea daring Assam one of  
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my favourite types of tea by the way is Assam  also Earl Grey very nice there is also a type  
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of Breakfast Tea which is not too strong so  there are many different types of tea but  
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normally we do put milk in our tea just  just a little bit not too much and if I  
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was honest with you I do like strong tea I do  like to taste the flavour of the tea I really  
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do there's nothing worse than drinking a cup of  tea and it has no flavour what's the point it's  
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like drinking hot milk you need flavour in your  tea so I have to say I do enjoy a strong cup of
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tea maritzio IO Hello maritzio nice to see you  
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here I am now in my car and  the thermometer says it is
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36° that is hot that is very very
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hot there are some strange people around if you  think I'm weird if you think I'm strange and crazy  
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trust me there are people around who  are much more crazy than me I think to  
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be honest with you I'm quite Sane I'm quite  a level headed person if I was honest with
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you Mr Duncan I have been watching  'bodies' a program called bodies on  
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Netflix I don't have Netflix I don't use  it it's too expensive and also there's  
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not much on there to watch so I don't  have Netflix I did have it for a while  
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but then I realized that I was paying  for a service that I never use so uh I  
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cancelled it and to be honest with you I  don't even miss it I don't miss it at all
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it sounds like some people are having a  bit of fun I should be careful I should be
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careful I did tell you some people are  crazy there are some crazy people around  
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maybe they're just having a good time and  to be honest with you if you are having a  
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good time and you are not harming anyone  in any way why not why not I don't really  
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use streaming services for TV shows or  movies to be honest it's a very noisy
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bus why is that bus making those strange  sounds I don't know maybe it's running on gas  
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something like that anyway I've been  on for 50 minutes I can't believe it  
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50 minutes I've been talking to you so I will  go in a minute because I have to get my bus  
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back to Much Wenlock and if I was honest  with you one of the problems with living  
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in the countryside and this is something  you might know if you live in a rural area  
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so if you live in a place or an area far away  from the towns and cities you might have the  
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the same problem as me which is there aren't many  buses that run at all so I have to make sure that  
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I get the bus back to much Wenlock hopefully it  will not be a bumpy bus it will be a nice smooth
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bus hello to Nong Nong Jan Fen hello Nong where  are you watching at the moment oh oh oh that's  
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nice oh oh isn't that lovely the sun has just come  out the sun is now shining everyone it is official  
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the sun is now shining here in Shrewsbury I will  contact the news agenes and let them know we do  
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have Sunshine the sun is now out and suddenly  everyone has a smile on their face those two  
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you see they went by they had a big smile on their  faces because the sun has come out just like the  
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song from Annie well I'm going in a moment I  hope you've enjoyed today's live stream it's  
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been different it's been unusual can I just say  there are new lessons on my YouTube channel as  
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well there are lots of new lessons I I've been  a very busy man to be honest with you very busy
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indeed oh my
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god wow yes I think I'm going to stop now  whilst I still have all of my limbs see  
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you tomorrow we will be doing a live stream  tomorrow from Bristol we will be meeting up  
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with the lovely lovely beatriz tomorrow tomorrow  and hopefully having a good time with her and Mr  
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Steve will be there as well tomorrow so if you  are a fan of Mr Steve can I just say we will  
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be together the three of us tomorrow thank you  very much Mr Duncan see you next time hopefully  
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tomorrow I will be with you I don't know what time  tomorrow I'm not sure what time I will be with you
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tomorrow 1:00 maybe perhaps 2:00 I'm  not sure anyway at some point tomorrow  
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at some point maybe in the morning or the  afternoon we will be with you live having  
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a little bit of fun in Bristol and of course  I will be with you on Sunday as well from 2:  
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p.m UK time on Sunday so I will see you  tomorrow hopefully and also I will see  
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you on Sunday as well thank you very much  for watching this something unusual and  
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if I was honest I am going to have a  cup of coffee now because I have to
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say I really feel as if I need a cup of coffee  and that is the final word that I'm having on that  
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subject thank you for watching the sun is out  I'm going to get a nice suntan now standing  
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here I will see you later this is Mr Duncan in  the birthplace of the English language which is  
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of course England this is where it all started  over a thousand years ago and the rest as they  
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say is history palir thank you very much palir  thank you very much Christina hello Christina  
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hi nice to see you here unfortunately these  particular coffee shops are not Italian you're  
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right they're not which means that the coffee  is probably not very good unfortunately see you  
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tomorrow take care we will be live tomorrow from  Bristol I will be there Steve will be there and  
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also berries will be there as well and  hopefully we can have a little bit of fun  
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then as well see you soon this is Mr Duncan  in the birthplace of English as I've already  
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said saying thanks for watching see you  later and of course you know what's coming
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next yes you do
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ta ta for now see you tomorrow we'll be in Bristol
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hopefully you'll be there watching
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I'm going now for a cup of coffee
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I think that clock might be a little bit slow
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